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ART AND DESIGN- Railways and the Western European CapitalsBy Micheline Nilsen, assistant professor of art history, University of Indiana. Palgrave Macmillan, £45.00. ISBN 9780230607736Nilsen looks at...
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From where I sit - It's a bit less tough at the top
According to an annual survey of executive compensation, the president of Boston's Suffolk University was paid $2.8 million (£1.89 million) last year, while the presidents of Northwestern University...
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Poppleton's RAE triumph!
A cheering crowd gathered outside the main administrative block this morning as the news came through that our university had leapt 123 places up the research league table in this year's research...
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Sexing up the science
Journals want 'no ifs and buts' research, but Tim Birkhead wants honesty
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Off Piste: Intellectual sustenance
A fortnightly series in which academics step outside their area of expertise. Laleh Khalili on two intimate, nourishing and, for female academics, often simultaneous acts: breastfeeding a child and...
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Leader: Raise your glass to UK research
RAE 2008 has proved that UK universities are dominant on the world stage, but the proportion of staff submitted is still an issue
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L. Neville Brown, 1923-2008
L. Neville Brown, a leading figure in the study of comparative law, has died.He was born in Wolverhampton on 29 July 1923 and educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School from the age of eight, until...
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It's not easy or cheap to put students first 1
I found it heartening to learn that student-centred teaching, rooted in the philosophy of Carl Rogers, is alive and well ("A matter of opinions", 11 December). Its value has always been contested...
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It's not easy or cheap to put students first 2
Your article on student-centred learning is a familiar rerun of the arguments around free verse, free jazz or free anything else that challenges the perception held by Stanley Fish, author of Save...
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It's not easy or cheap to put students first 3
I am intrigued by the photograph that illustrates this article. Please tell me which university provides offices big enough to get four whole students in and so much bookshelf space that at least one...
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Add fairness to RAE menu 1
Brian Cantor is right - the research assessment exercise should have transparency and integrity ("How can we measure the quality of research without quantity data?", 11 December). It also needs to be...
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Add fairness to RAE menu 2
The response to Cantor's cogent argument, that the RAE results would be much more meaningful if we knew the number of staff returned to each subpanel, is in his own hands. He should publish the...
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On faith or on fact?
Despite what Michael Reiss writes ("On the origin of an essential debate: Can science ignore faith?", November), differences about what constitutes "data" do imply "a great gulf" between religious...
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No threat in teaching skills
The Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies (Semta) feels it must respond to the article "The class of 2020?" ( November) and its view that higher education can...
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A mushrooming subject
Mycology, the study of fungi, is thriving in UK universities and research institutes despite rumours to the contrary in the press ("The week in higher education", 4 December) from Joan Kelley and...